Improvement in cotton-fxcssehs



wheels, and of the two rear wheels are rails i G, which inclosetcasels.

frame A are standards I,whicl i=,serv I confineto a vertical'path my'picker-frame, consisting of arectuugular frame, J, crossed bytransverse pieces,

' ton plants.

' The teasels L, like the teuscls H, have their awns I "WfhLiziM Ares-.2. 'orlicnrsuittn, KENTUCKY.

Letters i'otmt'No. 106,022, datedAugust 2, 1870.

1 w. ll -w IMPROVEMENT IN co'r oN-Pzcznrzsf The Scheduie referred to in these Letters. Patent and making part: of the same 1, WILLIAM .Arrnnnv, of Louisville, Jefi'erson county, Kentucky, Cotton-Picker, of which -the following is a specificatiou. I

Nature and Objects of the Iiwcntion. B My invent-ion is designed to facilitate the picking or gathering of cotton in the field, and consists in a device whereby one or more persons passing along arow of cotton-plants are enabled to ion that is ripe enough for removal.

General Description with reference to the Drawing.

Figure l is a perspective view of a cotton-pickingmachine embodying myjnvention, thepickersbcing in their depressed'condition.

Figure 2 is a chine.

vated. v

Figure 4 is a transverse section, with the pickers depressed. i

Figure 5 is a planjof the machiue.

Figures 6, 7, and 8 are enlarged views-of the teasels.

Ais a frame, preferably of fourwheels, B, which being havingarms D, are capable of or to the left, so as to guide gas-pipe, supported on ournaled in swiveis 0,

above the-crop. i 4

Rods E, connecting the two wheels of either'zpai'r eithcr sideat will.

Extending ath'wart the finrne Qil',,at equal distances,

awns'or pricklcsjpresented upward., v :3ccurcd to the ra-Vesor longitudinalportionsof the K, arranged vintermediately'to theiails E G, and a corresponding distance apart.

fAttachcd to and depending from the cross-pieces arc congcrie'sflot' teztsels, L, confined in wire'cages' or clamps, hLWYll lGll terminatein points m, the more bet-ween the branches of the cot-v easily to penetrate Rising front the picker-frame is a'curb or box,

have invented a new and useful.

gather the lintor cotlongitudinal section of the same mas.

Figure 3is a transverse section, with pickers eleheiug turned minengm, v thei'rame to its proper position, and alsosu-pp'ort it'a t' the proper elevation;

the armsotthe two front respectively, cause to veer tolrightorleft togethen-thus enabling the machine to he guided from' Eli-"having their euto guide and.

sides of rails F G, for the purpose of steadying said" rails,

formed oi iron rods or pipes Q, upon which there is stretched muslin, B, which serves to confine the gcthered lint or cotton.

Projecting from both extremities of the frame are pockets,- S, which, like the box Q It, may consist oi muslin'stretched upon; frame of rods or pipes. Flaps r s, in the said box and pockets, enable the. re; nioval'of the gathered cotton, when desired.

It is, intended that the wire caging M, while securely confining the tee bio and elastic to yield the plant, and thus to insinuate itself readily between the branches thereof, this action being still further assisted by the point-ed extremity of the said cage.

Notches, Ci, in the frame, enable the arms to be netaincd iu the position zhr it directly forward orhncb wardmovement of the machine over theground, vhen' desired. The machine may be made adjustable, sous topermit of its picking cotton that has been planted in rows of difi'erent widths.

Longitudinal stri may he attachedto thennder and also to'assist in stripping the cotton. These longitudinalstrips would also serve as guides for the pickers Lduring their upward and downward movement.

A suitable guard or fender of canvas maybe fastened to the frame for the pus-nose of separating the branches, where interlocked, from one row to another,

and preventing the branches passing under the wheels. The fender woniil also serve to bring the branches "more directly under the stripping-pickers.

.The picker-frame being ele ated, and the machine being wheeled over one end of a. row ofcotton-piants, the said frame sufferedto descend among the branches of the plants, and i then, by means of the cords P, elevated. The teasels I. of the picker-frame,

in descending, simply slide past the lint, because their anus ere presented upward, but on being elevated hese same awus catch the the stationary tcasels lint and drag itup above On the frame again descending, the awns of the tea-sols H catch the lintoif ii'oin' the-teasels L, which thus return naked for the next gather, and, on reascending, push the previous picking off of the teasels H into the bed of the pickerframe, and, on again descending, leave the lint just gathered upon the awns of the stationary teasels, as before. All the ripe lint within the limits ofthe uni.-

chine having been thus securedflhe machine is a ivanced as much as its length along the row, and the operation of picking proceeded with as before.

When the bed of the picker-frame has been thus filled was that, the latteris raked out through the flaps sis, snail he snificiently fiexi. to the more woody portions or 'snitable;reeeptacles,- and the wbrkq'es'umeeh-" Whiledscribing the preferredformef lfiyllfl'lltiflfl, v I do not propese 110 frestribb-mysel'f rigidly thereto.

For example; although ,1neferrin the; natural tease],

F a: the peck (alts,- end thence into seeks er Other I; maysubstitutegnretnllie cards 'er', 'teasels] therefor.

' "Amlth'e flame Ama'y be eerried OPIiftedfl-Om place to 111306., -,i ns'tea c l" qf being moverlfenwheels.

(II (tints,-

' ul elah n Renew; antlof my invention-w l1. j'.l.he tqrmngernentjof frame or tionzrry while in use, and adapted to straddle the row of plants, said frame heingprovided with ztcong'erie's other congeries of ascending and descending 't'ezlsels,-, L, for the purpose. set forth. l

H, to operate in conjunction with" 2. The pickerframe J K, provided with the pend- "-entcongeries of teasels I); and with -a. box, Q R, and

jw'ith elevating cards or pulleys, P, orthei'r equivalent.

' 3. The mode of securing the picker-'teasels by elas? tie and pointed cage M, as represented, r 4. The receptacles or pocketsjS, of canvas or other suitable n'mterial, for the 'purposedesignated.

WM. QaPP RLY;

- Witnesses GEO. H. KNIGHT, J Arms H. LAYMAN. 

